Teen raped for 2 years by eight

In another gruesome crime against women, a teenage girl in the city was sexually exploited several times by as many as eight youths for over two years.

| Updated: Jan 23, 2013, 03:35 IST

JAIPUR
: In another gruesome crime against women, a teenage girl in the city was sexually exploited several times by as many as eight youths for over two years.
The girl was first made an addict of liquor and cigarettes by one of these youths when she was hardly 14-years-old, police said. Once she became an alcoholic, these youths, most of them living in her neighbourhood and known to each other, started sexually exploiting her. She exchanged "hands" from one accused to another who allegedly raped her not only in Jaipur, but also took her to other locations, including Sikar and Ajmer, on fun trips by assuring her regular supply of alcohol. Police arrested all accused on rape and extortion charges on Tuesday.

The girl who was described as a "misguided teenager" by some police officers had eloped with a man identified as Iqbal in December. Her mother registered an FIR against Iqbal accusing him of rape after the police traced them. The teenager was separated from her family and currently lives in a shelter home for girls in the city. Iqbal is also behind bars on charges of kidnapping as the girl is a minor.

Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Jhotwara Nasimulah Khan told TOI that the girl's father had died after a prolonged illness a few years ago, while the mother is a vegetable vendor. The youths she has accused of raping her are in their twenties. Six of them live in the girl's neighbourhood in Jhotwara area, while two of them are from Sikar.

The police identified the youths as Rehan alias Bilal, Price alias Prakash, Balram, Salim, Imran, Bittu, Jahid and Mosin. The accused are unemployed or doing petty jobs. Most of them know each other, so they "recommended" the girl to the next friend, police said.

"She had first met Bilal when she was 14-years-old. He and some other accused turned her into an alcoholic. Bilal then raped her. She then got acquainted with another accused through Bilal," Khan said.

The girl then got entangled in a network of alcohol abusers and she was sexually exploited by one after one. Khan said it has not come to light if the girl had been gangraped.

"She is refusing to answer is she was gangraped. An investigation has been initiated after her allegations. She had separated from her mother when the police arrested her friend Iqbal in December last year. She is currently living in a shelter home for girls in the city," the officer added.

The police have booked all the eight accused under sections 376 (rape) and 384 (extortion) and other sections of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

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